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by aaroninsf 1456 days ago
This is as clear and succinct a statement as to why "web3" has nothing to offer as I have read.

Translation: we will rebuild existing financial institutions with a bunch of move-fast break-things poorly-regulated "difi" companies which will both intentionally and through ignorance recapitulate every flaw of the existing financial industry.

Purpose: as in the Celsius case, to intentionally exploit regulatory response time so as to extract money through opaque extra-legal and unethical exploits, intended to allow ourselves and chosen insiders to run off it, leaving deluded last-fools holding the bag.

There is literally no benefit to anyone except the VC backing the scam, who are using chaff and FOMO to farm rubes.

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I think this has been going on for at least 2000 years…

It doesn’t matter if it’s crypto or gold, there will always be people manipulating financial systems, but that doesn’t mean any system is inherently good or bad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_33

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeWork